# Suggestion: Keep release thread open

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/suggestion-keep-release-thread-open/139332>\
**Category:** Meta Discussion\
**Tags:** announcement, release, community\
**Created:** [September 10, 2026, 1:05pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/suggestion-keep-release-thread-open/139332 "2026-09-10T13:05:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![greatpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@greatpet](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/greatpet)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2026, 3:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/suggestion-keep-release-thread-open/139332/12 "2026-09-11T15:48:48Z")

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This is the last ever reply on a release thread:

> [@Julia v1.7.3 has been released](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-7-3-has-been-released/81683/30):
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> I’ve closed this thread. Announcements are meant to be low volume so that people can subscribe to the category and only get infrequent, important notifications, and all the chatter in the category is really undermining that. In the future we will preemptively close all release announcement threads and ask that people file issues in GitHub for any problems with new releases (or if GitHub is not accessible to you, create a new discourse thread linking to the release announcement). For questions ab…

Blame people there (like me) 😀

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